Findings revealed biological pathways as potential intervention points, and demonstrated in fruit flies potential therapeutic strategies.

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, affecting more than 10 million people ...

Although scientists have known some of the factors that raise a person’s risk of Parkinson's disease, the question remains of why some people with genetic risk factors develop the disease while others ...

Knowing which lysosomal proteins are enriched in which brain cell types will help better understand contribution to neurological disorders.

Using LysoTag and proteomics, scientists built the first atlas of lysosomal proteins across neurons, astrocytes, microglia, ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

Researchers at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS), LMU Munich, TU Darmstadt and Nanion Technologies have now decoded the function of the TMEM175 ion channel, which is crucially ...